skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ukraine cancelled consular services for all men abroad. It is not possible to renew passport without risking freedom.

I think many men will keep their paper passports with 10 year expiration date. And renew it every year "just in case".
Sounds like CS is not for them, and they find something else to do which is more applicable to their skills and interest. This is good. I don't think you should see a high drop out rate from a course as necessarily indicating a problem.
> slightly fancy code completion tool

Does this alone not increase your productivity exponentially? It does mine. I personally read code faster than I write it so it is an undeniable boon.
The amount of folk psychology in both that article and this thread is disappointing but expected. Introversion has become a fuzzy and basically useless term that gets folded into a number of unrelated concepts: neuroticism, openness to experience, and agreeableness.

I think that people get attached to the introvert/extravert division because it's the most clearly defined by social relations. It takes less introspection to be able to look at social group and define one's self relative to one's peers in terms of how much others seem to enjoy spending time in shared company compared to one's self.

The reality is that somebody might crave a lot of human contact but be paralyzed by social anxiety (that's me). Or maybe they don't want to leave their comfort zone but once out there can engage in long deep conversations with others, even strangers. We also mix into that stew social lubricants like alcohol, drugs, and board games that can warp a social situation and reward different social behaviors.

Ultimately, I think people understand a lot less about themselves than they realize (and I include myself in that). We latch onto the simplest categories, and we especially love categories that depict us as victims of societal circumstance, or somehow superior to the people around us.

The reality is that if you pick one dimension of psychological categorization like a diagnosis or a trait like introversion, and then look at all the people who share that, I think they share less in common than they might assume.
Love this idea, I too would love to have the stamping still available, perhaps at an automated kiosk you stick your passport in to receive your sentimental stamp.
OK but that's just the "US Navy was built for major power wars" problem.

The asymmetrical combat problem is real. We saw that back in 2000 with the USS Cole.

I have no insight here obviously, but there's a reasonable theory of warfare that you must accept small losses to justify overwhelming force.

Parrying small attacks against the peace is difficult -- cops can't stop bar fights -- but if it spills out into the streets, the riot police are ready to shut down the block (if you want to save the innocents) or bomb the neighborhood into oblivion (if you do not).

The US public prefers the first approach, until they do not.

War is politics.
The collective preference or legalism that’s in effect currently is that zoning is not a federal power.

For those who would prefer to change the status quo, there’s a documented process to recenter the country onto a new collective preference.
Cited contextual information retrieval.

One of the obvious uses for current LLMs is as a smarter search tool against static knowledge collections.

Turns out, this is a real world problem in a lot of "fuzzy decision" scenarios. E.g. insurance claim adjudication

Status quo is to train a person over enough years that they can make these decisions reliably. (Because they've internalized all the documentation)
When DMCA was proposed, the internet was up in arms predicting exactly this sort of stuff. It was a ridiculous law then and it is now.
LLM's response being best prediction of next token arguably isn't that far off from a human motivated to do their best. It's a fallible best effort either way.

And both are very far from the certainty the author seems to demand.
Whatever other zaniness is going on with Musk/Sam/etc, I can't escape the feeling that if I had donated a lot of money to a non-profit, and then a few years later that non-profit said "SURPRISE, WE'RE NOW FOR PROFIT AND MAKING INVESTORS RICH but you're not an investor, you're a donor, so thank-you-and-goodbye"... ya, I'd feel miffed too.

If we're a for-profit company with investors and returns etc... then those initial donations seem far closer to seed capital than a not-for-profit gift. Of course hindsight is 20/20, and I can believe that this wasn't always some devious plan but rather the natural evolution of the company... but still seems inequitable.

As much as Elon's various antics might deserve criticism (especially post-election) he seems to be in the right here? Or am I missing something?
Passports can die when there is reliable internet everywhere in the world. Including remote wilderness areas you paid a lot of money to visit and disaster zones where basic infrastructure has failed.
You can also argue if Iran did not have imperialist project over neighboring countries this event would've also not happened.
> To be fair, Brendan Eich was making a scripting language for the 90's web.

He was, and he doesn't deserve the full blame for being bad at designing a language when that wasn't his prior job or field of specialization.

But Lua is older so there's this element of "it didn't need to be this bad, he just fucked up" (And Eich being a jerk makes it amusing to pour some salt on that wound. Everyone understands it's not entirely serious.)
The working group is definitely quite corporate-driven – just look at who's most active in it! – and has made some bad decisions in the past (my favorite example being [1], which effectively either breaks the hardware authenticator experience for passkeys or helps Yubico sell more/higher capacity Yubikeys, depending on how you look at it).

But I agree that one thing you can't accuse them of is not operating in the open. While I don't agree with some of their decisions, discussing feedback in Github issues as well as on public mailing lists is probably as transparent as it gets.

[1] https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1822
A lot of media exists for political reasons. Making adjustments to campaign funding isn't going to do anything about that.

It's likely more effective than campaign spending...
> But wasn't there relatively high unemployment among developers after all these Big Tech layoffs post pandemic?

I'm speculating too but yes it appears that unemployment is pretty high among the CS majors: https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/1hhl060/how_is_it...

But at the same time there's an ongoing infighting among Trump supporters because tech elites came up as pro - skilled immigration where the MAGA camp turned against them. The tech elites claim that there's a talent shortage. Here's a short rundown that Elon Musk agrees with: https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1872408010653589799
We can't test/review these apps though, can we?

I'm asking not for snark, but because when AI gives me something not _quite_ working, it requires much more time than what a "every 6 minutes in 10 hour work day" frame would allow to investigate. I just wonder if maybe you're pasting it as is and don't care about correctness if the happy path sort of works. Speaking of subsets, coders who did that before AI were also quite a group.

There must be something that explains the difference in our experiences. Apologies for the fact that my only idea is kinda negative. I understand the potential hyperbola here, but it doesn't explain much. I can stand AI BS once a day, maybe twice, before uncontrollably cursing into the chat.
I don't provide dedicated security services to start ups, so maybe I am outside my lane. However, it is my baseless assertion that nation-states are not dedicating entire teams and months of social-engineering research to backdoor a startup for non-monetary motives. I also suspect startups do not own the entirety of their own distribution infrastructure in production from the wheels, through the ISP, to the local keyboard.
We don't have AGI until there's code you can plug into a robot and then trust it to watch your kids for you. (This isn't an arbitrary bar, childcare is a huge percentage of labor hours.)
I’m going to put my money on gross incompetence and lack or training based on videos I’ve seen of assaults made by soldiers using electric scooters and golf carts…
Cursor has been quite the jaw-dropping game changer for me for greenfield hobby dev.

I don't know how useful it would be for my job, where I do maintenance on a pretty big app, and develop features on this pretty big app. But it could be great, I just don't know because work only allows Copilot. And Copilot is somewhere between annoying and novelty in my opinion.
> how do you revoke a certificate which was used to issue millions of ID cards/passports once it leaks? Does everybody suddenly not have a "valid" ID proof?

You need cutoff date and some kind of public trail log to prevent backdating new certificates. This can be done via short-lived secondary certs derived from a root one, logged publicly
Why are pro freedom developments so often narrated in negative terms? "lose" copyright protection, housing market "crash", and so on. What is (hopefully) happening is that the public will now finally gain full access to these works that have already been part of the public consciousness for nearly a century. That is multiple generations of people being born, living, and dying, yet being told that these public symbols are someone else's to control for their entire life! Ten years of copyright would be plenty of time to create and commercially exploit new works. That the corporate rent seekers have been able to march the length of time steadily upwards despite the amount of new creative works continually expanding, including the shameless creation of maximalist memetic trash like the term "Intellectual Property", really just shows how disempowering our political representation is.
It's a bad example. Lots of finance firms use AI to manage their financial affairs - go and investigate what is currently considered state of the art for trading algorithms.

Now if you substituted something safety critical instead, say, running a nuclear power station, or my favourite currently in use example, self driving cars, then yes, you should be scared.
Mark created Blitz Basic on the Amiga, and then Blitz3d, BlitzMax and Monkey programming languages on the PC. He also published several games including Guardian and Gloom on the Amiga.

I got my start with Blitz on the Amiga, after it was featured in Amiga Format magazine. Back then it was expensive learning to code, but with Blitz, which cost about £60, you could write hardware hitting games, native GUI apps and terminal programs out of the box. There was nothing stuffy about it either, from the docs and Blitz User Magazines, you knew you were dealing with some fun loving kiwi guys who liked their games and rock music.

And unlike a lot of high-level languages back then, (which were a bit slow) you could, if you had the right design, create something in Blitz that stood alongside mainstream video game releases. Worms and Super Skidmarks were popular commercial Blitz games.

I owe Mark a lot. I did not have a background favourable to becoming a programmer, but Blitz helped make that possible.
As a neuroscientist, my biggest disagreement with the piece is the author’s argument for compositionality over emergence. The former makes me think of Prolog and lisp, while the later is a much better description for a brain. I think ermergence is a much more promising direction for AGI than compositionality.
https://archive.ph/6wx1R
DMCA is working exactly as intended: the asymmetry is the house advantage, keeping IP holders in the green and consumers in fear of their power. Any innocent casualties who were benefiting culture and society are acceptable losses. It's not going to change as long as they keep buying politicians.
One key, one base_url config, one billing account. If you like to mess around with many different models it's very convenient.
Because human minds are fallible black boxes, we have developed a wide variety of tools that exist outside our minds, like spoken language, written language, law, standard operating procedures, math, scientific knowledge, etc.

What does it look like for fallible human minds to work on engineering an airplane? Things are calculated, recorded, checked, tested. People do not just sit there thinking and then spitting out their best guess.

Even if we suppose that LLMs work similar to the human mind (a huge supposition!), LLMs still do not do their work like teams of humans. An LLM dreams and guesses, and it still falls to humans to check and verify.

Rigorous human work is actually a highly social activity. People interact using formal methods and that is what produces reliable results. Using an LLM as one of the social nodes is fine, but this article is about the typical use of software, which is to reliably encode those formal methods between humans. And LLMs don’t work that way.

Basically, we can’t have it both ways. If an LLM thinks like a human, then we should not think of it as a software tool like curl or grep or Linux or Apple Photos. Tools that we expect (and need) to work the exact same way every time.
I obviously wasn't doing an actual appeal to authority. I'm anonymous on here, so it would hold no weight even if it wasn't a poor argument. I was just being snarky because the ignorant objections are so very stupid.

I didn't argue big tech isn't doing user capture. I pointed out webauthn is a standard and does not necessitate getting into bed with "big tech".
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The real news here is two-fold: new governance/recap of the for-profit, and operational shrink at the 501c3.

As people here intuit, I think this makes the PBC the ‘head’ functionally.

That said, I would guess that the charity will be one of the wealthiest charities in the world in short order. I am certain that the strong recommendation from advisory is to have separate, independent boards. Especially with their public feud rolling and their feud-ee on the ascendant politically, they will need a very belt-and-suspenders approach. Imagining an independent board at the charity in exchange for a well funded pbc doesn’t seem like the worst of all worlds.

As a reminder, being granted 501c3 status is a privilege in the US, maintaining that status takes active work. The punishment: removal of nonprofit status. I think if they wanted to ditch the mission they could, albeit maybe not without giving Elon some stock. Upshot: something like this was inevitable, I think.

Anyway, I don’t hate it like the other commenters here do. Maybe we would prefer OpenAI get truly open, but then what? If Sam wanted he could open source everything, resign because the 501c3 can’t raise the money for the next step, and start a newco; that company would have many fewer restrictions. he is not doing that. I’m curious where we get in the next few years,
The pessimist is not wrong. In fact he's right more frequently than wrong. Just look at a long list of inventions. How many of them were so successful as the car or the airplane? Most of them were just passing fads that people don't even remember anymore. So if you're asking who is smarter, I would say the pessimist is closer to the truth, but the optimist who believed in something that really became successful is now remembered by everyone.
I mean, it’s known that there’s no intelligence if you simply look at how it works on a technical level - it’s a prediction of the next token. That wasn’t really ever in question as to whether they have “intelligence”
I don't know about their other expenses, but SEO/advertising is probably one of their better uses of money even if we don't like it. It's hard to gain market share against a browser that is pitched each time you do a Google search no matter how good the product is.
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It's 2 days after Christmas, too early to know the impact of the purchases made based on what AI recommended, either positive or negative.

If you're relying on AI to replace a human doctor trained in skin care or alternatively, your Google skills; please consider consulting an actual doctor.

If she "knows a lot about skincare in general, so she had the capacity to recognize any wrong recommendation", then what did AI actually accomplish in the end.
I won't comment on the robustness of the Embraer construction, but I should point out that the 2006 incident is not necessarily indicative of that; the two aircraft collided head-on, and the relatively fragile vertical winglet of the smaller jet severed the outer third of the Boeing's wing before breaking away, almost cleanly. The Embraer thus was able to continue flying while the 737 was doomed. Swapping the positions of the two aircraft would probably have produced an opposite outcome.
Who knows about the future, right? I'm just trying to read the expectations of the people who have control over both the AI, Capital and Politics and they don't strike me as optimistic about AI actually doing much in near future.
Giving them an LLM to help with syntax errors, at this stage of the tech, is deeply unhelpful to their development.

The foundation of a computer science education is a rigorous understanding of what the steps of an algorithm mean. If the students don't develop that, then I don't think they're doing computer science anymore.
Same, I use it all the time and never perceived it as slow. I am not a tmux user, maybe the speed is noticeable when using more complex terminal apps like that?
My point is that when you normalize for risk-taking behavior, women will come out worse. When a woman goes out at 3am in her Chrysler 300 to sling dope through a bad neighborhood, she will face additional risks than the ones she chose.
It’s never reasonable to close an airport to an airplane experiencing an emergency. It’s not something that’s done. At most, ATC might advise against it if something makes it outright dangerous to land there, but the decision ultimately rests with the pilot.
Sure, but I'm commenting on the fact that gp believes that having panic attacks in social interactions is just an introvert trait. Parent comment and I are arguing that it's not.
Agreed that there shouldn't be automatic or even rapid reliance based on the parallels I drew to humans.

My point was more that falliability isn't the inherent show stopper the author makes it out to be.
I’ve never heard a good explanation for why elements like gold appear together in veins. Why aren’t atoms of elements randomly distributed.
Absolutely. Just wanted to point out that having difficulty being in a social and potentialy rowdy and loud environment for hours can still remain after the "seek psych/medical help" advice that was thrown out!
How to send web articles to a Kindle
Segway seems to have hardly been a dead end, or useless for that matter. Segway-style devices like the electric unicycle and many other light mobility devices seem to be direct descendants of the Segway. Segway introduced gyroscopes to the popular tech imagination, at least in my lifetime (not sure before).
For macOS/iOS, you could give Strongbox a try: https://strongboxsafe.com/

I haven't really looked into it myself, but it seems to be using the same database format as KeePass, and it hooks into macOS's "FIDO provider" API, which makes it accessible to not only Safari but all browsers that use it (which includes Firefox and Chrome on macOS, and probably everything on iOS), without requiring any browser-side extension.
https://archive.ph/X0u5G
Sounds a lot like a blockchain
As of right now, we have no way of knowing in advance what the capabilities of current AI systems will be if we are able to scale them by 10x, 100x, 1000x, and more.

The number of neuron-neuron connections in current AI systems is still tiny compared to the human brain.

The largest AI systems in use today have hundreds of billions of parameters. Nearly all parameters are part of a weight matrix, each parameter quantifying the strength of the connection from an artificial input neuron to an artificial output neuron. The human brain has more than a hundred trillion synapses, each connecting an organic input neuron to an organic output neuron, but the comparison is not apples-to-apples, because each synapse is much more complex than a single parameter in a weight matrix.[a]

Today's largest AI systems have about the same number of neuron-neuron connections as the brain of a brown rat.[a] Judging these AI systems based on their current capabilities is like judging organic brains based on the capabilities of brown rat brains.

What we can say with certainty is that today's AI systems cannot be trusted to be reliable. That's true for highly trained brown rats too.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n... -- sort in descending order by number of synapses.
> with vast and unreliable intelligence

I would say "knowledge" rather than "intelligence"

The key feature of LLMs is the vast amounts of information and data they have access to, and their ability to quickly process and summarize, using well-written prose, that information based on pattern matching.
LLM's are non-deterministic: they'll happily give different answers to the same prompt based on nothing at all. This is actually great if you want to use them for "creative" content generation tasks, which is IMHO what they're best at. (Along with processing of natural language input.)

Expecting them to do non-trivial amounts of technical or mathematical reasoning, or even something as simple as code generation (other than "translate these complex natural-language requirements into a first sketch of viable computer code") is a total dead end; these will always be language systems first and foremost.
Model Merging in LLMs: Methods and Applications
Thank you! I like unconventional solutions! And yes, I really like F# :) In this case, the Markdown conversion is done using the excellent FSharp.Formatting library
thank you and the community for the work. i hope to see blocks (not sure if this is a shell thing or a terminal thing) the same way warp does it :)
Only if :

1. I get a Free Smart Phone for use for this

2. The service is Free

Passport books have a 1 time fee and for 10 years in the country I live in. I expect the same for Phone use.
No, not everyone has a price. Obviously anecdotal but I have met some truly passionate people in real life who wouldn't compramise their values. Humanity has not lost just yet.

(I would say the same about some people who I haven't personally met, but it would be speculation)